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Christina Howells at the University of Oxford

Margaret Atack at the University of Leeds

Ursula Tidd at the University of Manchester

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READING LIST:

Lisa Appiganesi, Simone de Beauvoir (London, )

Steven Crowell (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism (Cambridge University Press, )

Ruth Evans (ed.), Simone de Beauvoir’sThe Second Sex: New Interdisciplinary Essays (Manchester University Press, )

Elizabeth Fallaize, Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader (Routledge, )

Elizabeth Fallaize, The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir (Routledge, )

Emily R. Grosholz (ed.), The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir (Oxford University Press, )

Sonia Kruks, Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford University Press, )

Toril Moi, Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (Blackwell, )

Toril Moi, What is a Woman, and Other Essays (Oxford University Press, )

Ursula Tidd, Simone de Beauvoir (Routledge Critical Thinker series, Routledge, )

Ursula Tidd, Simone de Beauvoir (Reaktion Books ‘critical lives’ series, )

Ursula Tidd, Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony (Cambridge University Press, )

Violette. A film by Martin Provost

 YOU HAVE TO HAND IT to the French for making a biopic about a writer known in the U.S., if at all, only in academic and feminist circles. Violette is an examination of the ravaged emotional and romantic life of a deeply personal writer who found her greatest supporter in the far more famous Simon de Beauvoir.

         Martin Provost’s film is a steadily absorbing account of an insecure woman coming of age in Nazi-occupied France, struggling to find her emotional balance and her voice, feeling ugly and unloved, who drove her friends to distraction and her small circle of literary companions and mentors nearly to despair. Born out of wedlock, Violette’s relations to her mother were constantly fraught, and during the harsh wartime and its aftermath, she relied on the black market to earn a living and acquire what few creature comforts—especially food—sustained her.

         Spurred to her earliest literary efforts by the homosexual writer Maurice Sachs, an ethically suspect character rumored to have collaborated with the Nazis, she finds the wherewithal to deliver her first book-length manuscript, anonymously, to the door of Simone de Beauvoir, already a known literary figure. “Castor”—as Jean-Paul Sartre called de Beauvoir, his longtime

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